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Couple busted
TORONTO - A couple has been arrested for having
sex on both a subway car and subway platform in Toronto. (Digital
Journal) MORE:
Sex on subway draws charges
Saturday night is sex night in Canada
Jail for foster parents
PICTON - A
Bloomfield, Ont., couple who turned their home into a “sexual cult”
while fostering 25 teenagers over the course of 3 years will spend a
total of 7 years in prison. (QMI)
Predator charged
VANCOUVER - A man police identified earlier this year as
a predator who was targeting young women in Vancouver's Downtown
Eastside has been charged with sex crimes against 4 teens, with
investigators still looking into allegations involving at least 7 other
possible victims. (CP) MORE:
New charges
Man jailed
EDMONTON - Abdikarim Mohamed Firin, 31, was handed a
nearly 6-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual
assault. (QMI)
Senior abuse investigated
MONDAY - On the eve of
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day,
Marguerite Blais revealed that investigators are probing allegations
that the owner of a private seniors' home has been sexually abusing some
of its female residents. (Montreal Gazette) RELATED:
Police use technology in elder abuse
cases
Seniors Canada
Rapes
KINSHASA
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More than 1,100 women are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC),
making sexual violence against women 26 times more common than
previously thought. (AFP)
Sperm stealing alleged
WINNIPEG - Hilaire Ndyat,
42, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo who moved to Winnipeg
in 1996, is executive director of the Winnipeg Afro-Aboriginal
Crosscultural Association and is also involved with numerous inner-city
and cultural organizations and committees. Ndyat is accused of raping a
female acquaintance inside his West Broadway apartment in March 2008.
(QMI)
More charges
DURHAM - Durham police
have laid 19 new charges against Stephen Martin of
Oshawa, Ont. Police said that a man posing as a
woman in online chats with teenage boys had them expose
and touch their genitals on camera. (PostMedia)
Male nurse charged
TORONTO - A nurse at a west-end Toronto long-term care
facility has been charged with sexual assault after a 70-year-old female
resident complained about an incident in her room. Charged is Leonid Kozlov, 45. (Toronto Star)
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Guilty
VANCOUVER - A former
member of the BC Lions football club has been found
guilty of two sexual assaults. (CP) MORE:
Former Lion convicted
Josh Boden
'Sleeping' assaulter
TORONTO - A Toronto man
accused of groping women on the TTC while pretending to
be asleep has surrendered to police. Hektor Konomi, 34,
turned himself in to police on Tuesday afternoon and has
been charged with seven counts of sexual assault.
(CityTV) PREVIOUS:
'Sleeping' sex assaulter
strikes again
Serial
rapist
KAMLOOPS -
Mounties confirmed that Jack Samuel Froese has been
charged with six counts, including uttering threats,
aggravated assault with a weapon, sexual assault and
kidnapping. (CTV) MORE:
Police did best to monitor sex offender
Abduction charges
Monitored sex offender tied to attack
Photos released
HALIFAX - Regional Police say the highly unusual
decision to release photographs of women who may have
been peeped-on has already resulted in tips. Police
aren't saying much about the investigation, including
speculation it's related to the ongoing 'Sleepwatcher'
case. (CTV) MORE:
2 women found
Sex assault probe
TORONTO -
Mohammad Masroor, 48, of Toronto, faces 13 charges in
relation to alleged offences committed between Nov. 1
2008 and July 28, 2011. Authorities believe there may
be more victims both in Canada and outside the country.
(CTV) MORE:
Imam charged
'Unconscious sex' ruling
OTTAWA - The Supreme
Court of Canada has ruled that in order for someone to
exercise their legal right to refuse sexual activity,
they must remain conscious throughout the entire
encounter. (CTV) JUDGMENT:
2011 SCC 28 No
consent in unconscious sex case
No 'advanced consent'
Human trafficking ring
OTTAWA - Two Ottawa men and a woman have been arrested
in a human-trafficking sex ring that forced girls as
young as 14 into prostitution. (Ottawa Citizen)
MORE:
8 charged in human trafficking probe
Police project helps sex-trade workers
Victoria woman assaulted by group
VICTORIA - A 20-year-old Victoria woman
was sexually assaulted numerous times by a group of men
after being pulled into a vehicle against her will.
MORE:
Assault in Victoria
Toronto woman assaulted by group
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'Femicide'
PARIS -
International Women's Day
marked its 100th year with protests against "femicide" in its various
forms around the world - from honour killings in Turkey to wanton
violence in Guatemala to the deadly crushing of a women's rally in Ivory
Coast. (AFP) MORE:
100th anniversary
Guatemala must act to stop killings
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Man allegedly victimized women
CALGARY -
Shannon Bradford Dixon, 33, also known as Shannon
Mercer, has been charged with more than 22 offences
including extortion, fraud, sexual assault, assault,
uttering threats, bestiality and injuring or endangering
animals. (CTV) MORE:
Victims sought
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Levin also facing civil lawsuits
CALGARY - Forensic psychiatrist Dr.
Aubrey Levin, currently in the midst of a month-long preliminary hearing
on 21 charges of allegedly sexually assaulting patients under his care,
is also facing two civil lawsuits seeking $1.3M in damages. (Calgary
Herald) |
International media and
public banned
Judge bans public
Looking for victims
Aubrey
Levin
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18 years
MONCTON - Romeo Cormier was sentenced to
18 years for abducting a New Brunswick woman, sexually
assaulting her and keeping her captive for nearly a
month. (CTV) |
Guilty
Jury convicts
Murder plot defence
Nobody heard calls for help
'You're with the devil now'
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Judges deciding
TORONTO - A panel of
judges at Ontario's highest court will likely take
several months to consider the constitutionality of
Canada's prostitution laws after the landmark case
wrapped up today. (Global)
Issue of choice raised
Prostitution laws stay in effect
2010 ONSC 4264
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Workers can avoid harm
by leaving profession
This working girl
Canada to legalize
prostitution?
Prostitution in Canada
Judges critical of fed's
claims
Prostitution laws struck down
Judge overturns brothel ban
Sin taxes
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Pimp charged
VANCOUVER - Burnaby resident Jian
Feng "Michael" Li, 47, appeared in Vancouver provincial court to face
one charge of living off the avails of prostitution and four counts of
keeping a common bawdy house. (CTV) |
More charges
VANCOUVER -
Reporter Ron Bencze is facing four new
sex related offences involving two new victims under the
age of 16. (PostMedia) MORE:
Reporters sex charges span 10 years
Reporter faces sex charges
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Doctors free to practice
TORONTO
- Two doctors have been charged with the serious sexual assault of one
woman and Toronto Police say at least two more complainants have now
come forward. (QMI) MORE:
Doctors hire PR firm |
Ex-aid jailed
TORONTO -
“I am sorry,” Robert Meinzer, 40, said Friday, said to
three women sitting in court - one of whom he did not
admit attacking. (Toronto Star) MORE:
Victims sought by police
Aide faces charges
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60 criminal convictions
WINNIPEG - Jeremy Accobee, 34, was found guilty of sexual
assault causing bodily harm, forcible confinement, robbery and breach of
probation in connection with the Sept. 17, 2008 attack. (QMI) |
Not guilty
HONOLULU
- Father Bohdan Borowec, a Winnipeg priest has been found not
guilty of kidnapping and sexual assault charges in Hawaii. (CTV)
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Priest arrested
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Sex-offender
VANCOUVER - Peter Titchener was convicted
in 2008 of five counts of sexual assault for touching female patients
during chiropractic treatment. (CP) PREVIOUS:
Chiropractor convicted
Chiropractors face charges
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Sex attack not sleepwalking
CALGARY - Dr. Patrick Hanly, director of
the Foothills Medical Centre sleep centre, said the
evidence would suggest Gary Gordon Yuen, 47, was awake
when he committed the attack. (QMI) |
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Sex extortion case
EDMONTON - Michael Joseph Jerace, 41, was
handed a four-year sentence after earlier being found
guilty of attempted sexual assault and unlawful
confinement.
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Teacher cleared
OTTAWA -
Jennifer Lynne McCalla, 34, was charged
in early 2009 after a 17-year-old male student claimed
she touched him inappropriately. (CTV) MORE:
Teachers on trial |
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Teen arrested for prostitution
VANCOUVER
- Police in BC say that a 14-year-old girl was selling sex and
attempting to pimp out other teens on Craigslist. (CTV) |
Woman charged
WINNIPEG - Theresa Peebles, 38, has been charged with
three counts of trafficking in persons, forcible
confinement and assault. (CBC) |
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Sex scandal publication ban
TORONTO -
Now, the
church's founder, former Orangeville grocer Jae-Kap (Joe) Song, 55,
faces charges in Canada of inappropriately touching a female
parishioner. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS:
Pastor arrested |
More charges
TORONTO - A Toronto doctor
already accused of 3 counts of sexual assault is now facing 26 more
charges. Dr. George Doodnaught, 61, worked as an anesthesiologist at
Toronto's North York General Hospital. (CBC) |
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Teen jailed
OTTAWA - A teenage rapist who attacked a 15-year-old
female friend at the Metcalfe Fair was sentenced to
nearly two years of jail and community supervision for
what a judge described as one of the worst cases of
sexual assault causing bodily harm. (Ottawa Citizen)
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BC suspends penile sex
tests
VICTORIA -
The BC government has suspended a
controversial test called a penile plethysmograph, which
it was using to assess young sex offenders to determine
their risk of reoffending after treatment. (CBC)
MORE:
Test suspended
Penile plethysmograph
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100 days for rape
CALGARY - Repeatedly raping and sodomizing a young girl
in his mother's day home has landed a Calgary man 100
days in detention. (QMI) |
'Domestic' victim is police chief
BELLEVILLE - Belleville, Ont., police chief Cory
McMullan says she was the victim in a "domestic
incident" at her home. (CP) |
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Stalker given probation
OTTAWA - A judge sentenced a 17-year-old
to two years probation Monday for stalking women walking their dogs at
the Conroy Pit while masked and armed with a rape kit, including a
knife, condoms, sex toys and a padlock and chains. (QMI) |
Psychiatrist faces 21 charges
CALGARY - A Calgary psychiatrist who has
testified in court cases for the Crown now faces 21 sexual assault
charges involving patients. Dr. Aubrey Levin, 71, was arrested and
charged March 23 after allegations that a 36-year-old man was repeatedly
sexually assaulted. (CTV) |
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Student teachers charged
VANCOUVER - 3 student teachers in BC are
facing sex charges involving high school students in separate cases in
Abbotsford and Surrey. (CP) |
Fighting to escape
She has been raped, beaten, robbed, tied up,
manipulated, bought and sold. A pimp told her that the
world is a dark, cold place, only to find out that for
her, it really is. (QMI) |
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Bail breach meaningless
VANCOUVER - Coquitlam parents are fuming
over a judge's decision to once again grant bail to Aleksandr Plehanov,
a substitute teacher charged with sexually assaulting his students,
after he was arrested a second time earlier this week. (CTV)
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Life
for rape
TORONTO -
She survived Stalinist Russia and World War II, coming
to this “wonderful country” for a better life. But the
elderly woman says she suffered “a shattering brutal
blow” when Michael Anderson broke into her west Toronto
apartment to stab and rape her five years ago when she
was 76. (Toronto Star) |
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8 years
TORONTO -
Daniel Katsnelson, the 27-year-old man convicted of sexually assaulting
two York University students on campus, has been sentenced to eight
years in prison. (CTV) |
Security guard charged
VANCOUVER -
Mohammad Rafe Alsadi, 27, of Burnaby is
also charged with one count of sexual assault for
alleged sex crimes against a female patient that
occurred Dec. 5, 2009. (QMI) |
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Chief steps down
VANCOUVER - The hereditary chief of the
Aitchelitz First Nation
has stepped down after pleading guilty last week to sexual
interference. Jimmy George, who became chief in 1997, was charged with
one count of sexual interference of a person under 16. (Vancouver
Province) |
Attacker's violent past
TORONTO - Toronto Police have lingering
concerns that Russell Kirkpatrick may have preyed on other women who
haven't come forward yet. (QMI) PREVIOUS: Arrest
in cemetery assault
Suspect appears in court
Sex assault
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Not criminally responsible
VANCOUVER - A man who committed a violent sex attack on his landlady has
been found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder. Steven
Thomas Lowry, 26, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated sexual
assault and aggravated assault in connection with the April 2008 attack.
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Poser extorted women
OTTAWA -
The Crown is seeking almost four more years in jail for a man who raped,
beat and extorted sex and cash from terrified women who believed he was
a powerful Hells Angel. A psychiatrist concluded that Peter Guido, 31,
"does impress as significantly psychopathic." (QMI) |
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Woman sues
KAMLOOPS -
One of two women involved in a sexual
encounter in a BC jail cell that prompted an inquiry
after RCMP officers and city workers allegedly watched
the encounter without intervening is suing . (QMI) |
Woman never consented to sex
Officers suspended
Senior officer among watchers
Failing to act
Police, jailers investigated
4 cops investigated |
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Schoolyard sex results in charges
CALGARY - Police have
charged a 16-year-old boy alleged to have had sex with a
12-year-old girl in front of onlookers in a northeast
schoolyard. (QMI) |
What happened was
shocking...and not true
Schoolyard sex
Police say charges near
'Hooking up'
Young girl sexually
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HIV man cleared
EDMONTON - An Edmonton man who is HIV
positive was found not guilty of forcing unprotected sex
on a Toronto woman he met on an Internet dating site.
Following two hours of deliberations, a
jury acquitted Patient Simpenzwe, 44, of aggravated
sexual assault. (QMI) |
Victims sought
Police accuse HIV positive man
18-year term
Up for parole in 6
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police seek victims of HIV positive man
BC
man sentenced to 15 years for spreading HIV
Coach deliberately exposed women to HIV
HIV-infected
man guilty on 7 counts
HIV-accused
claims his partners 'didn't ask'
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more come forward
CALGARY -
There are new developments in a case involving a Calgary
psychiatrist charged with sexual assault. Dr. Aubrey
Levin has already been charged with one count of sexual
assault. (CTV) PREVIOUS:
Doc charged with sex assault |
Gang sex assaults
TORONTO - 3
men have been arrested and police continue to search for
3 others who allegedly participated in the gang sex
assaults of 3 women and one minor they met at church.
(CityNews) MORE:
Suspects given bail
Suspects, victims met at church |
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Farm raided
SEATTLE -
A convicted cocaine smuggler has been arrested at what authorities say
appears to be a bestiality farm in Washington state where visitors could
engage in sex acts with animals. (AP)
MORE:
Canadian connection to farm |
GPS helps nab sex
offender
CALGARY -
Just six weeks after his release from jail, a convicted sex offender is
facing new charges in Calgary after allegedly inappropriately touching a
woman he'd met at an LRT station. (QMI) |
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Serial rapist arrested
TORONTO - The Annex Rapist, a serial
rapist who terrorized Toronto women in the mid-1980s, is
in custody in Vancouver. Dawson Davidson, now 45, is
charged with assault and sexual assault of two women.
(QMI) MORE:
Serial rapist charged
Sex offender no threat says lawyer |
Teen charged in sexual assault
GITSEGUKLA
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A nine-year-old girl has been
hospitalized after being sexually assaulted by another
child in a home in BC's Interior. A 14-year-old boy was
arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault. The
two children were known to each other, police say.
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Guilty plea
WINNIPEG -
Convicted sex offender and former hockey coach Graham
James pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges.
(CTV)
James pleads guilty
Fleury
to file complaint
Theoren Fleury
Playing With Fire, |
Foster dad facing sex charges
CALGARY - Garry Prokopishin is charged with luring a child via a data device,
3
counts of obtaining or attempting to obtain sex from a
person under age 18 and sexual contact with a youth by a
person in authority. (QMI) MORE:
Province vows review
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Bureaucratic no comment
TORONTO - A 14-year-old boy facing sex charges in
Toronto is the sole resident of a $350,000 Mississauga
group home and gets $150 a week for allowance, officials
say. The home is run by the Children's Aid Society.
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5 wanted surrender
TORONTO -
Five men wanted in connection with a New
Year's Eve sexual assault have surrendered to police, a
day after their photos were released to the media.
(Toronto Star) MORE:
Suspects turn themselves in |
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Dangerous offender
TORONTO - Justice Ian MacDonnell declared
Jody Robinson a dangerous offender, saying his next
victim could suffer "catastrophic" injuries because
sadists grow more violent as they age. (Sun Media) |
Judge rejects consensual sex claim
EDMONTON - Court of Queen's Bench Justice Denny Thomas
found Philip Skulnec, 30, guilty of sexual assault
causing bodily harm, kidnapping, unlawful confinement
and possession of a dangerous weapon. (Sun Media) |
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Guilty of 3 rapes
EDMONTON - Adam Blea, 27, an Edmonton man was convicted of raping
three women in the downtown area, including one victim
who testified against him from beyond the grave.
(QMI) MORE:
Rapist convicted |
7
years
EDMONTON -
Taekwondo instructor Thomas Innerebner has been
sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually touching
seven girls. (Edmonton Journal) PREVIOUS:
Guilty
Brave victims 'stopped' future assaults
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Coach accused of sex assault
CALGARY - A Calgary man has been charged
with inappropriate sexual behaviour involving a
15-year-old girl within weeks of volunteering as a minor
hockey coach. Five charges were laid against Michael
Shawn Bourgeois. (Calgary Herald) |
Arrest made
REGINA
- A man wanted for two terrifying sex assaults against
woman in BC has been arrested in Saskatchewan. Shaun
Funk was taken into police custody at a Regina home just
before 11pm Wednesday night. (CTV) PREVIOUS:
RCMP identify suspect
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Absolute discharge
TORONTO - A Toronto man found not criminally responsible
for sexually assaulting a woman because he suffers from
sexsommia will
not face any restrictions on his freedom, the Ontario
Review Board ruled Thursday. Jan Luedecke does not pose
a significant threat to public safety, the board said in
granting him an absolute discharge. (CP) |
Forced to wed
OTTAWA
- Forced marriages have garnered little attention in
this country. But the plight of Canadian teen Hardeep
Flora, who two weeks ago fought her way back to Canada
after contacting consulate officials in India, has
suddenly cast a spotlight on a deeply hidden form of
abuse. (Toronto Star) MORE:
Force to wed - twice
When arranged marriages go awry |
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Guilty plea
OTTAWA
- The Crown is considering a dangerous offender bid for
a deaf-mute man who pleaded guilty to his sixth sexual
assault. Marc Lecuyer, 31, entered his guilty plea
through a sign-language interpreter. (Sun Media) |
30 months
EDMONTON - Vishva Juneja, 64, a convicted pimp who, as a
driving instructor, tried to recruit prostitutes for his
massage parlours has been sentenced to 30 months behind
bars. (Sun Media) MORE:
Jail for Juneja |
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Long term offender
VANCOUVER - A Surrey hebephile who preyed on teenage
street kids by supplying them drugs for sex has been
declared a long-term offender and sent to prison for 11
years in prison. (Vancouver Sun) MORE:
Long-term offender, not a
dangerous offender |
Guilty plea
RED
DEER - Gerard John Baumgarte pleaded guilty to
kidnapping, using an imitation firearm, assault with a
weapon, sexual assault, confinement and impersonating a
peace officer. (CTV) MORE:
Girl used 'CSI' tactics to
outsmart rapist |
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Investigation 'doesn't ring true'
OTTAWA
- Although it was acknowledged among Canadian troops and
some military police that Afghan security personnel were
sexually abusing children, investigators took just 11
weeks to determine there was nothing to the concerns
raised by a soldier who said he witnessed such an
incident, according to Defence Department records.
(Ottawa Citizen) PREVIOUS:
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Gang-rape suspects walk free
CALGARY - In tossing the charges against Kulwinder
Rajasansi and Wesley Sinclair, Justice Peter McIntyre
said the 38-month delay between the men being charged
and the end of their trial was inexcusable. Two other
males, one youth and one adult, were handed penitentiary
sentences after pleading guilty to taking advantage of
the victim on Oct. 19, 2004. (Sun Media) |
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Sexual predator
VANCOUVER - Police are investigating the possibility
that a man who threatened a 13-year-old girl on a bus,
then sexually assaulted her, may be connected to three
other incidents in Metro Vancouver. (Vancouver
Sun) MORE:
Girl ordered off bus, sexually assaulted
Assaults linked
DNA links sex assaults |
Convicted rapist wins new trial
OTTAWA
- The Supreme Court says a London, Ont., rapist
convicted in a pair of sexual assaults should get a new
trial because there should have been separate trials in
the two cases. The high court set aside the convictions
against Gregory Ernest Last and ordered him retried.
(Toronto Star) JUDGMENT:
2009 SCC 45 |
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Exploitation scheme
OTTAWA
- An 18-year-old Ottawa man is facing several charges
including sexual assault and child exploitation after a
seven-month police investigation uncovered an elaborate
scheme that recruited teens and other young women to
perform sexual acts over the Internet. Ryan Earl McCann
faces multiple charges as a result of the
investigation. (CTV) |
Canada returning sex offender
VANCOUVER - A Nevada sex offender with a history of
escaping mental facilities is scheduled to return to the
US from Canada after a judge there, citing a
technicality, threw out charges against him in the rape
of a young girl 30 years ago. (Nevada Appeal)
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Judge stays charges
BC Judge stays charges
DNA trashed |
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Case patronizes women
REGINA - Where is the sex or the assault in the sexual
assault charge to which Eric Tillman pleaded guilty?
(Toronto Star) |
Tillman resigns from Riders
Absolute discharge
Guilty plea
GM pleads guilty
Tillman pleads guilty
Eric Tillman
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Wife beater
EDMONTON - Marc Joseph Menard, 43, an Edmonton man who
poured wine and milk on his common-law wife, hit her
with a metal bar and beat her "from head to toe" was
handed a two-year jail term. (Sun Media) |
Bureaucratic 'oversight'
WINNIPEG -
The family of a Manitoba teen sexually assaulted in her
bedroom by a former Canadian soldier is outraged at the
bureaucratic “oversight’‘ that kept them from a parole
hearing that led to his release from jail. (Mike on
Crime)
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Judge questions sentence
WINNIPEG - Garron Scott hung his head in his hands as a
judge refused to accept - at least for now - a
recommended seven-year prison sentence for a violent
sexual assault outside a downtown shopping mall. (Sun
Media) |
Spa kept sex slaves
EDMONTON - Police received a tip that there might be a
bawdy house and a case of human trafficking involving
Sachi Professional Massage Spa. (Edmonton Journal)
PREVIOUS:
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Wrong arrest
BANFF - A
transient man arrested in an attack on a woman in Banff
is being released because police say they arrested the
wrong person. (CBC) MORE:
Attacker still loose |
Former cop gets 15 years
WINNIPEG - A former Winnipeg police officer has been
sentenced to 15 years in prison for a premeditated sex
attack on his terminally ill ex-wife. (Mike on Crime)
MORE:
Chief on hand |
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Sex attack a lie
CALGARY - The 14-year-old Strathmore girl, who accused a
group of men of sexually assaulting her in an alley
there about midnight Monday, later came forward
admitting she fabricated the allegation. (Sun Media) |
Suspect had 15 warrants
EDMONTON - Kyle Bowler, a 25-year-old man who was
arrested for his alleged involvement in the abduction of
a 16-year-old girl already had 15 outstanding warrants
for his arrest. (CTV) MORE:
Man arrest in abduction |
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59 years
LOS
ANGELES - Celebrity fashion designer
Anand Jon
Alexander was sentenced to 59 years to life in prison
for sexually assaulting seven young women and girls he
enticed with the promise of modeling jobs. Alexander,
35, faces similar charges in New York and Texas. (LA
Times) |
Guilty pleas
OTTAWA
- A Nepean man who spent last summer looking for young
girls on pathways in Ottawa's west end has admitted he's
guilty of the seven sexual assaults he's charged with.
Brent McGrath, 24, has been in police custody since
October. The youngest victim was an 11-year-old girl.
(CTV) |
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7 years for rape
WINNIPEG - Queen's Bench Justice Brenda Keyser said
Kenneth Bauer committed a "despicable" act which
humiliated the victim and cries out for punishment.
(Mike on Crime) MORE:
'Predatory attack' |
Teacher charged
MISSISSAUGA - The 50-year-old teacher at Father Michael
Goetz Catholic Secondary School allegedly assaulted a
16-year-old girl inside the school on May 29. (Toronto
Star) MORE:
Teacher charged
Teacher accused |
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Sexual assault charges
VANCOUVER - A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in
connection with a pair of sexual assaults that took
place this summer in New Westminster. (CTV) |
Speeding driver was watching porn
PORT
HOPE - Police who pulled over a motorist on Highway 401
near Port Hope on the weekend say he was watching an
X-rated movie while driving 40 km/h over the limit.
(Toronto Star) |
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Rapist surrenders
VANCOUVER - Paul Douglas Callow, 52, turned himself in at a Surrey
courthouse. (CanWest) MORE:
'Balcony rapist' arrested |
Psychiatrist guilty
OTTAWA
- Dr. Juan Tejeda-Rosario,
known as Dr. Tejeda, was found guilty of two charges of
sexual assault. (Ottawa Citizen) |
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Ex-cop to stand trial
WINNIPEG -
A former Winnipeg police officer has been ordered to
stand trial on charges he sexually assaulted and
exploited 22 girls and women during his off-duty work as
a photographer and talent scout. No dates have been
set and Richard Dow remains free on bail. A
court-ordered ban prevents specific evidence from the
hearing being published. (Mike on Crime) |
No more jail time
MONTREAL - She was stabbed in the head. Her cheek, jaw
and eye socket were smashed. She spent two months in a
coma and sustained brain damage. A judge ruled that her
attacker - a man who pleaded guilty - will not spend any
more time in jail. In September 2005, Marcia Langleib,
then 52, was waiting for a metro at the Snowdon station
when Peter Nidzielsky, then 27, tried to sexually
assault her. (CTV) |
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Prison for 'Rutland Rapist'
KELOWNA -
Tyler Earl Stephens stalked the streets of Kelowna after
dark for six months in 2007, claiming nine different
victims. Stephens has been in jail since his arrest and
guilty plea on the sex assault charges 19 months ago and
has now been sentenced to a further five years in
prison. (CHBC) PREVIOUS:
Guilty plea |
Real estate agent charged
EDMONTON -
26-year-old Oldin Yadir
Maldonado has been charged with several offences
including two counts of sexual assault causing bodily
harm, three counts of unlawful confinement, and one
count each of sexual assault, robbery, and uttering
threats to cause death or bodily harm. (CTV) MORE:
Rape rap for realtor |
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Feds expanding sex offender registry
OTTAWA
- New federal legislation to expand the national sex
offender registry would make it mandatory to register
everyone convicted of a sex crime. It would also allow
police and corrections officials to make greater use of
the information in the registry. (CP) |
Trial exposed a seedy side
NAPANEE, Ont. - The sexual exploitation trial of
David Frost
exposed a seedy side of hockey culture in which women
are merely objects of gratification for young men who
consider group sex normal, a judge said Friday in
finding the former hockey coach not guilty. (CP)
MORE:
Judge acquits Frost of all
charges |
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Candidate charged
VANCOUVER - An independent candidate in
Newton-North Delta
has been charged with sexually assaulting and exploiting
a youth. James Miller, who is campaigning under the
name James W. Miller-Cousineau, was charged in Surrey Provincial Court. (Vancouver Province)
PREVIOUS:
Miller accused of ripping off charity
Miller's
End Youth Violence website |
CBC reality judge charged
TORONTO - A judge on CBC Television's reality show
How Do You Solve A
Problem Like Maria?
was arrested over the weekend, after a man he had
allegedly forcibly kept in his Yorkville hotel room
climbed out the window and crashed down onto a
restaurant patio amid Sunday's midmorning brunch rush.
(CanWest) MORE:
Maria judge charged with
assault |
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Coach charged
TORONTO - A Toronto boxing coach who trained Olympians,
including former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, has
been charged with sexually assaulting a student over 10
months. Police arrested Adrian Teodorescu, 65, after he
got off the plane at Pearson International Airport
Sunday night. (CanWest) MORE:
Olympic coach faces sex
assault charges
Coach faces charges of
sexual assault |
Man pleads not guilty
TORONTO - Jagdeep Chahal turned himself in after police
appealed to the public for help finding the suspect and
released a nightclub surveillance video which appeared
to show him joking with a friend in a stairwell on
January 22nd. Police say Chahal slipped a drug into the
victim's drink before attacking her at a club near
King and Brant streets.
(CityNews) MORE:
Not guilty plea
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Coach charged with sexual assault
EDMONTON - Perry Nile Larsen, 38, faces charges of
sexual assault and sexual interference. Larsen has been
coaching gymnastics in and around the city for nearly 20
years, police say. (Edmonton Journal) |
High-risk offender charged
CALGARY - Michael Andrew
Scott, 35, faces new charges of aggravated assault,
assault with a weapon, break and enter, forcible
confinement, possession of a weapon and breach of
recognizance. (CBC) |
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Indefinite sentence sought
WINNIPEG - Kevin
Steppan, 23, already had a history of sex crimes when he
targeted two young women in 2005. (Mike on Crime) |
Funeral director pleads guilty
NORTH
BAY - Timmy Lynn Smith, 50, admitted to
indiscretions. (Ottawa Citizen) MORE:
Out of town judge needed for
sex offences trial |
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Family violence
OTTAWA - More than 1M Canadians reported suffering
physical or sexual abuse at the hands of their partner
or spouse in 2009, a proportion that has remained
constant for five years according to data released by
Statistics Canada. (PostMedia)
Less spousal abuse reported
Domestic violence report
Report calls for faster action
Spousal violence in Canada
2006
Domestic abuse law blasted
Domestic violence increase
Findings & recommendations
.pdf
Panel members
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Family violence in Canada 2009
Police reports of spousal abuse down
Spousal violence
Jail for family members
Woman confined tortured
Disabled woman abuse
New laws backfire
A-G calls for fight against abuse
Stop spousal abuse, Jean
pleads
Battered wives plead for change
Fear, secrecy and shame
Victims wary of reporting
violence
Family
violence: A statistical profile
Afghan wives seek peace in
suicide |
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Prostitution debate rages worldwide
One of
the latest battlegrounds for the highly charged issue of
prostitution - is it violence, is it a job? (National
Post)
No safe place
Killing sex workers for their own good
Why turn prostitutes into criminals?
Legalize the sex trade
Government underworld in cahoots
Sex workers set to launch challenge |
Sex trade concerns
Teens forced into sex trade
Driving instructor charged
Vancouver 'testing ground'
'Dangerous'
laws prompt prostitution group to sue
Committee can't agree
Prostitutes won't look to
police
Councillor
proposes city run brothel
Mayor
wants red light district
Bid
to legalize prostitution 'misguided, naive' |
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Women terrorized
BANFF - Two
women heading home after a night out with friends in
Banff accepted a ride from a stranger, unleashing a
hellish ordeal that could have cost them their lives. (Calgary Herald)
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Man guilty
TORONTO - Michael Anderson sat calmly in the prisoner's box
after Superior Court Justice Todd Ducharme
convicted him of multiple offences. (Toronto Star)
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Scout leader charged
VANCOUVER - Police have a arrested and charged a Scouts
Canada leader with sexual exploitation and assault
allegedly committed between November 2007 and April this
year. Eddie Au, 34, of Richmond was a scout volunteer
for about 10 years. (Vancouver Sun) |
Teens' pimp got rich
BRAMPTON - A former
Toronto man who made more than $400,000 selling two
young girls for sex has pleaded guilty to two counts of
human trafficking. Imani Nakpamgi, 25, admitted the
crime in a Brampton court yesterday. (Toronto Star)
MORE:
Pimp hired out teen girls |
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Guilty
PETERBOROUGH - A judge ruled that Stanley Tippett, 33,
was guilty on all seven charges against him, including
abduction and sexual assault. (CanWest) MORE: Tippett
a dangerous offender
Guilty of sex assault
Accused cries while recounting night
Accused claims he was carjacked
Convicted 'predator'
Accused was murder suspect |
Released on bail
TORONTO - A pregnant teenager who was put in jail to
ensure she would testify at the domestic assault trial
of her boyfriend was released on bail even
though the court isn't finished hearing her evidence. (Toronto Star)
PREVIOUS:
Released from jail
Dogma gets tripped up in the details
It's not a joke
Why teen ended up in jail |
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Former prison guard jailed
VANCOUVER - A former Matsqui prison guard was sentenced
to two years less a day for a date rape. Balkar Singh
Basra, 30, was convicted of having non-consensual sex
with a woman he met through an Internet chat line.
(Vancouver Sun) MORE:
2008 BCSD 1526 |
Lawsuit settled
OTTAWA -
Carleton University has
reached an out-of-court settlement with a female student
who sued the school after being sexually assaulted in
2007. (CTV) PREVIOUS:
Lawsuit raises issues of responsibility Carleton
accused of 'victim blaming'
Labelling dilemma |
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Lafleur
guilty
MONTREAL -
Canadiens legend Guy Lafleur has been found guilty of
obstructing justice by giving contradictory evidence at
a bail hearing in September 2007 for his troubled son
Mark Lafleur. (Montreal Gazette) |
Lafleur sentenced
Lafleur convicted
Lafleur
turns himself in
Acquitted
Guy Lafleur
Ex recalls cycle of abuse |
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Attacks kept city safe
EDMONTON
- Judge Donna Valgardson ruled
that Jonathan Quinn Lewis, 25, did not know that what he
was doing was wrong when he snuck into the girls'
bathrooms at two Edmonton elementary schools and
assaulted the children. (Edmonton Journal)
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2 guilty of rape
VANCOUVER - Ali Saadatmandi and Ali Tayyebi were each
charged with sexual assault - and Saadatmandi was
charged with administering a stupefying drug - after the
June 2005 incident involving the 18-year-old girl.
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Ex-con charged with assault
CALGARY - Marcel Joseph Parent, 30, has
been charged with possession of a weapon for a dangerous
purpose, sexual assault with a weapon, robbery and
unlawful confinement after a woman was attacked at
knifepoint at a northwest Calgary tanning salon.
(Calgary Herald) |
Accused kills himself
ST. JOHN’S
- A man
who was to stand trial Tuesday in St. John's on
kidnapping and sexual assault charges has killed
himself. Darren Joseph Fagan, 37, was found dead at Her
Majesty's Penitentiary, in the east end of St. John's.
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Deportation may not stop offender
VANCOUVER - A wanted US sex offender with a 30-year
history of violent and sexual crimes is facing
deportation this week -- his fourth order in five
years. But British Columbians who have followed the
case for years fear Denver Todd Carnes could end up in
Canada again. (Vancouver Province) MORE:
Carnes' rap sheet and
timeline |
Teen makes surprise guilty plea
MONTREAL - A serial rapist apologized in Youth Court
yesterday to the women he sexually assaulted and their
families, saying he was sorry for the hurt he had
caused. In all, the 18-year-old man was accused of
sexually assaulting 11 women. His name cannot be
published because he was a minor when he committed the
crimes. (Montreal Gazette) |
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Honour killings up 70%
BASRA - Authorities in
the southern Iraqi city of Basra have admitted they are
powerless to prevent
honour killings
in the city following a
70% increase in religious murders during the past year.
(Guardian UK) |
’Honour’ crime underestimated
Crimes of the Community
'Honour'
crimes bring nothing but shame |
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Leone is 'inherently dangerous'
WINDSOR - Convicted sex
offender
Carl Leone
represents a "real and present danger" and should be
incarcerated indefinitely, assistant Crown attorney Tim
Kavanagh told Windsor Superior Court Justice Joseph
Quinn. (Windsor Star) |
Schoolboys charged
TORONTO - Police have charged eight boys with the
alleged sexual assault of four 13-year-old girls at a
Rexdale school, dispute allegations from the parents of
the accused that the children were just playing around.
(National Post) MORE:
8 boys charged with sex
assault |
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College fights prof's return
CALGARY - An arbitration panel has ruled a Lethbridge
College professor dismissed for having sex with his
students should be reinstated, but the college doesn't
want him back. (Calgary Herald) |
Serial rapist released without rehab
CALGARY - Keegan Troy Spearchief, 22, was released
from jail after serving four years for multiple violent
sexual assaults and break and enter, prompting police to
issue a warning to women. (Calgary Herald)
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C.W. Jeffreys
officials face charges
TORONTO -
Police have charged the former principal and two
vice-principals at C.W. Jeffreys Collegiate with failing
to report an alleged sexual assault on a female
student. (CBC) PREVIOUS:
CW Jefferys officials
face child act charges
4 charged
4 charged in sex assault |
Life
in prison
EDMONTON -
Ryan Huppie, 24, appeared resigned to his fate and
showed little reaction as the sentence was read in court
Friday. (Edmonton Journal) PREVIOUS:
'The brutality is extreme'
Huppie on cocktail of drugs
Vicious
rape like slasher 'movie' |
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We've lost track of sex offenders
VANCOUVER -
The case of Steven James Petiquan illustrates just a few
of the reasons why Canada's sex offender registry has
been called everything from "useless" to "a sham." Last
summer, the convicted sex offender from Abbotsford
decided to take a trip to Calgary. Petiquan, 31, didn't
tell authorities about it. The law says he doesn't have
to for trips of less than two weeks. (Vancouver
Province) |
Man serving time for gang rape is set
free early
MONTREAL -
A man sentenced to four years and two months in prison
after the 2005 gang rape of a 14-year-old girl in a St.
Michel park is free to walk this city's streets this
morning. Guards ushered Andy Virgile, 21, out of the
Montreal Detention Centre late Thursday, after the
Quebec Court of Appeal ordered his immediate release.
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Ex-cop charged
VANCOUVER - Robert Gordon
Bodkin, a former Mountie, Vancouver police officer and
longtime Coast Mountain Bus transit supervisor is facing
sex-crime charges dating back to the 1970s. (Vancouver
Province) |
Woman sues for $600,000
MONTREAL - A woman who was sexually abused for years by
her mother's boyfriend is suing the man for $600,000 in
damages after the criminal courts handed him a
conditional sentence.
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Dance teacher guilty of sex charges
VANCOUVER - A BC judge
shredded the testimony of tap-dance teacher Van "The
Man" Porter, finding he lied on the stand and lacked any
credibility as a witness before finding him guilty
yesterday of six counts of sexual misconduct against
three former teenage students. (Vancouver Province) |
'Marpole Rapist' released despite
indefinite sentence
VANCOUVER - A man deemed
a dangerous sexual offender and sentenced to an
indefinite jail term 13 years ago is out on parole and
living in Vancouver. Gary Jagur Singh, the Marpole
Rapist, was arrested in 1991 after a three-year string
of sex assaults. (Vancouver Province) |
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Ten worst countries for women
For many of the 3.3 billion female occupants of our
planet, the perks of the cyber age never arrived. As
International Women's
Day
is celebrated they continue to feel the
age-old lash of violence, repression, isolation,
enforced ignorance and discrimination. (Toronto Star) |
Afghan women call for
peace, equality
Licence to lie for
Italian women
Canada's women must
share their success with the world
Ontario short changing
women |
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11 women drugged at party
VANCOUVER - The
women who were drugged were at a Beta Theta Pi
Fraternity party on Sept. 21. Stephanie Ataliotis said
the men in the fraternity, for University of BC
students, have been supportive in trying to find out
who's behind the drugging. (Vancouver Province) |
Nunatsiavut
president charged
Police have charged the president of the self-governed
Inuit region of
Nunatsiavut
in
Labrador with sexual assault. William Andersen III took
a paid leave of absence in November from his role as
president of the
Nunatsiavut Assembly.
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Conditions imposed on sex offender
VANCOUVER - A provincial court judge in Abbotsford has
imposed strict conditions on a high-risk sex offender
just released from prison. (Vancouver Province)
PREVIOUS:
Watchful eye
PEI
rapist arrested at Vancouver airport |
Serial rapist may be active in BC
KELOWNA - Police in Kelowna, BC believe a serial rapist
may be active in the area, after several women were
sexually assaulted -- the latest victim a 15-year-old
girl. (CTV) MORE:
New warning from RCMP after
sex attack |
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Madam says Senator used her brothel
NEW ORLEANS - New allegations tie Senator
David Vitter
to a high-priced brothel in his hometown, one day after
he publicly apologized for his connection to an alleged
prostitution ring in Washington, DC. (AP) PREVIOUS:
Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Deborah
Jeane Palfrey's website
Senator apologizes DC
madam can peddle 'call' list |
Offender off national registry
NANAIMO - A former Vancouver Island doctor who served a
four-year jail term for sexually assaulting patients has
had his name removed from the national sex offender
registry. The 63-year-old man, identified only as "S",
successfully argued in BC Supreme Court that keeping his
name on the registry for the minimum 20-year period is a
significant violation of his privacy. (CP)
JUDGMENT:
R. v. S. (M.W.) 2007 BCSC
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Police seek more details
VANCOUVER - Vancouver police issued a public appeal
Wednesday for more information about a man accused of
sexually assaulting four women after allegedly slipping
a
date-rape drug
in their drinks. .(Vancouver Sun) |
Early deviant behaviours linked to sex
abuse: study
VANCOUVER - A study of more than 500 repeat sex
offenders in BC has discovered two types of early-life
behaviour that leads to repeat sexual abuse.
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2nd York rape suspect in court
TORONTO - A second man charged in the sexual assaults on
two women at York University has been remanded in
custody until tomorrow. (Toronto Star)
PREVIOUS:
Suspect arrested in York
U sex assaults
Sex assaults in
dormitory rattle York University |
Gas station employee raped
LANGLEY - A woman working alone at a Langley gas station
in the middle of the night was sexually assaulted after
letting a young man in to use the washroom. The woman,
in her late 40s, was working in a locked Husky station
at 200th Street and Willowbrook Drive. (Province) |
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Cop by day, rapist by night
MONTREAL - Benoit Guay led two very different lives. In
the one everyone close to him knew about, he was a
13-year veteran of the Montreal police, working
undercover for a surveillance unit and married to a
fellow officer. In the other, which he kept secret, he
drove around the streets of Laval and St. Jerome late at
night, looking for young women and girls he would
sexually assault. (Montreal Gazette) |
Lawyer charged with sex crimes
HAMILTON - A Hamilton lawyer who specializes in
defending youths has been charged with sex crimes
against two of his teenage male clients. A
strained-looking Tom Martin, 43, was led into a bail
court prisoner's dock charged with one count of sexual
assault and two counts of sexual exploitation.
(Hamilton Spectator) RELATED:
Rabbi, synagogue sued
over seduction scandal
Coach
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Rape trial gets national attention
OMAHA, Neb.
- A
Lincoln woman plans to testify this week as the victim
of an alleged sexual assault. But the judge has banned
her from using the words "rape" and "sexual assault." (KETV) |
Rape victim recalls horror in court
MELFORT - The alleged
victim in a sexual assault trial wailed loudly and
covered her face when the Crown prosecutor on Tuesday
presented her clothes from the night three men allegedly
attacked her. (Star Phoenix) |
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Sex offenders younger, more violent,
study says
STOCKTON, Calif. - Courts have seen the number of
sex offense cases involving juvenile offenders rise
dramatically in recent years, an Associated Press review
of national statistics found, and treatment
professionals say the offenders are getting younger and
the crimes more violent. (AP) |
Women patients wait for answers
EDMONTON - Jenny had never met a doctor as caring and
attentive as Edmonton whiplash specialist Robert
Ferrari. During his first assessment, he commented on
her extraordinary level of fitness and suggested they
get together to pursue their mutual interest in running.
(Edmonton Journal) RELATED:
Righting a 'nightmare'
system |
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Indicted for rape
TEL AVIV -
Moshe Katsav
was officially indicted on charges of rape and indecent
assault against a female aide who served as the former
president's bureau chief during his tenure as tourism
minister. (Haaretz)
PREVIOUS:
Outrage grows over Katsav deal
Plead deal for Israeli
president challenged
Guilty plea keeps
Israeli president out of jail
Katsav
hands in resignation after accepting plea bargain
Moshe Katsav |
Getting away with murder
They call it
femicide.
"It's the fashion here to murder women," says a man in
Killer's Paradise.
More than 600
Guatemalan
women a year are murdered. The figures have quadrupled
in the last five years, while the murder rate among men
has remained constant. Since January, 102 women and
girls have been killed, among them a 7-year-old who was
raped and beheaded. (Toronto Star) RELATED:
Rape for Darfur women
Test
snares rapists without sperm |
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Delays halt sex charges
VICTORIA - Four sex
charges against a lawyer, once employed as a Crown
prosecutor, have been stayed because of court delays.
(Victoria Times Colonist) |
Man deemed dangerous
offender
EDMONTON - The Crown has won its bid to have Eugene
Francis declared a dangerous offender for a series of
increasingly brutal attacks on women. (Edmonton Journal) |
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Mayor refuses to step down
VANCOUVER - Embattled Port Coquitlam Mayor
Scott Young
is refusing to step down. A defiant Young last night
chaired his first council meeting since pleading guilty
to assaulting his former girlfriend and her
boyfriend. (Province) |
Jail guards charged
CALGARY - Two corrections officers from the Calgary
Remand Centre have been fired and are facing criminal
charges after a reported sexual assault against a fellow
guard last month. (Calgary Herald) |
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Date rape drug kills student
VICTORIA - Zoe Read died at Royal Jubilee Hospital on
March 13 after accidentally overdosing on gamma
hydroxybutyrate, commonly known as
GHB,
at a party three days earlier. (CanWest) |
Former CFL player convicted of sexual
assault
Former BC Lions linebacker Keith Franklin
has been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman at
knifepoint in her Vancouver high-rise. (Province)
Franklin jailed again |
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Rapist had no drug tests
VANCOUVER - A serial rapist on parole who attacked five
Lower Mainland women during a nine-day crime binge was
never tested for drugs by his parole officer -- despite
the fact drug and alcohol use was a key factor in most
of his past crimes. (Vancouver Sun) |
66 sex criminals let loose in BC
VANCOUVER - A total of 66
sex offenders considered too dangerous to be paroled
have been released from B.C. prisons over the past five
years -- a rate of more than one a month, according to
statistics provided by the Correctional Service of
Canada. (Vancouver Sun) |
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Man writes woman he raped
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - William Beebe had been haunted by
that night for years. He'd tried to send the letter
before - and failed. Just like he'd failed to stick
with Alcoholics Anonymous. Just like he'd failed
at so much in life. (Fox) |
51 slaps for accused rapist
LUCKNOW, India - A man in northern India will be
publicly slapped 51 times as punishment after village
elders found him guilty of raping a neighbor who is deaf
and mute, a village chief said Friday. (AP) |
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More Groper victims
VANCOUVER - Two more victims of a serial groper who is
preying on women in Vancouver, Burnaby and Coquitlam
have come forward. That makes 27 women attacked since
January last year. (Province) PREVIOUS:
Serial groper eludes police |
Ex-Israeli official convicted
JERUSALEM - Former Israeli Justice Minister
Haim Ramon
was convicted Wednesday of kissing a young female
soldier against her will — a case that riveted the
country's attention and added another layer of scandal
to Israel's beleaguered leadership. (CBS/AP) |
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Charges dropped against
victim
The case of an Iranian girl sentenced to death for
killing a man who attempted to rape her has had a happy
ending: the charges have been dropped.
(CTV)
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Save
Nazanin Google pages
Rape victim faces lashing
Canadian helps save woman's life
Beauty queen backs condemned teen
Nazanin Afshin-Jam
Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi |
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Rural sex trade gets violent
Crowbars and knives are
some of the weapons used against sex workers in rural
and small-town BC, according to a report that calls
for more social services to protect prostitutes from
increasingly violent attacks by pimps and customers.
(Vancouver Sun) MORE:
Girls lured to sex parties
in West Shore |
Private dicks paid to have sex
SYDNEY
- Private detectives in Sydney have been paid to have
sex with prostitutes by city officials. The men were
paid through official channels to do the deed so as to
give evidence in court cases aimed at closing down
brothels. (WGHP) PREVIOUS:
Councils pay for brothel sex |
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Dethroned beauty hangs her head
MIAMI -
Katie Rees
the former Miss Nevada USA,
dethroned over raunchy photos posted online, apologized
yesterday as her lawyer pleaded for the pageant queen to
be given a second chance. (AP) MORE:
Photos that stripped Miss
Nevada of her title |
Rapist faces new charge after
controversial parole
VANCOUVER - A convicted
rapist accused of sexually assaulting an 89-year-old
Nanaimo woman while on parole was released from jail by
a BC parole board that was not fully informed of his
violent sexual past. (Vancouver Sun) |
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'A tragic rush to accuse'
WASHINGTON -
They were accused of a brutal sex crime that reopened
centuries- old racial divisions in the American South --
a group of privileged white college boys who allegedly
gang-raped a black stripper at a late-night frat house
party. (CanWest)
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2006 Duke lacrosse scandal
Expert admits "Big Error"
Duke charges dropped
Midnight blogger exposes a
scandal
Duke players get their
reputation back
More ethics charges against Duke DA
DA Nifong Breaks His
Silence
Mike
Nifong |
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Three serial sex attackers stalk
neighbourhoods
TORONTO - Police said yesterday they are hunting for at
least three serial sex attackers stalking women in
neighbourhoods across the city. (National Post)
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University sex attack |
An unguarded moment, a lifetime of pain
VICTORIA - It's party time at a friend-of-a-friend's
house and the teen is enjoying a couple of illicit
drinks. Later, she can remember kissing a guy, but then
there's a blank. A total blank. (Times Colonist) |
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Accused Skytrain predator cared for
foreign students
VANCOUVER - A man charged
with the brutal robberies of Asian women near SkyTrain
stations in east Vancouver was paid by several schools
in recent years to care for international students
visiting Canada to learn English. (Vancouver Sun)
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women |
Church leader resigns after gay sex
COLORADO SPRINGS - One of the nation's most influential
conservative Christian leaders, the Rev.
Ted Haggard,
resigned yesterday as president of the National
Association of Evangelicals and temporarily stepped
aside as pastor of a Colorado mega-church after a
self-described male escort accused him of paying for gay
sex. (Washington Post) |
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17-year-old charged with 11
rapes
MONTREAL - A
17-year-old youth has been arrested and faces 21 charges
connected with a series of sexual assaults that occurred
in Montreal North over the last year. (CTV) |
Woman who burned boyfriend's penis
detained
MONTREAL - A woman who used fondue fuel to set her
boyfriend's penis on fire will spend the holidays in
jail. (CP) |
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Judge releases offender
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. -
The judge ruled Malcolm
Watson was not a high-risk
offender. (CTV) |
Court releases exiled
US sex offender
Breaking America's favorite taboo
Man
sentenced to exile in Canada |
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Notorious rapist deserves prison forever
EDMONTON - An Edmonton woman raped 37 years ago by
notorious sex offender Steve Ewanchuk says she wants the
man declared a dangerous offender and jailed
indefinitely. (CanWest) MORE:
Ewanchuk's first victim
breaks 37-year silence |
Naked Suitor Threatened at
Gunpoint in Michigan
ANN ARBOR,
Mich. - A marriage-minded man ran naked through his
neighborhood, trying to show his hesitant girlfriend
that taking risks is important. He got more than he
bargained for when he ended up being chased and shot
at. (Fox News) |
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'Psychopath' rapist faces
life behind bars
BANFF - A
man who viciously raped and almost killed a pregnant
young woman in a Banff park was declared a dangerous
offender Thursday and now faces life in prison. The
sentencing judge called him a "creature." (Calgary
Herald) |
"Friends"
sex harass suit gets boot
California's
highest court today threw out a sexual harassment case
brought by a former "Friends" assistant who
claimed that she was improperly subjected to vulgar and
coarse language by the comedy show's writing staff.
(Smoking Gun) |
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Beltline rapist deemed high risk
CALGARY - Wafid Delaa, 41, was declared a dangerous
offender on Wednesday and handed an indefinite prison
sentence. (Calgary Herald) PREVIOUS:
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rapist guilty |
Brutal beating earns 4 years
VANCOUVER -
A man convicted in a vicious Valentine's Day assault on
a sex trade worker was sentenced
Wednesday to four years in jail, less time already
served. (Vancouver Sun) |
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Ellison avoids prison
VANCOUVER -
Former teacher Tom Ellison was sentenced
Friday to house arrest for sex crimes against teenage
students at Prince of Wales high school in the late
1970s and early '80s. (Vancouver Sun)
Ellison sentenced to house arrest
Appeal filed in Ellison case
Ellison guilty on a series of counts
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Verdict handed down in teacher's trial
Police seek additional
victims
Further Quest charges
considered
Police probe death threat to Ellison
Ellison portrayed as power tripper
The Tom Ellison trial
Was it consensual or criminal?
Sex and schoolgirls
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Warrant
for Somalian issued in '04
SURREY
- The federal agency responsible for removing non-citizens
convicted of serious criminal offences from Canada issued
an immigration warrant in December 2004 for the arrest of
a Somali refugee on the grounds that he was a danger to
the public. (Vancouver Sun)
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Ottawa's
incompetence at deporting criminals puts lives at risk
Sex
predator has immigration warrant
Victim
fought attacker in sex assault
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Harassment
was systemic
VANCOUVER
- A
former Richmond fire chief says there was a "systemic
problem of harassment" in the department and he
supports efforts by a female firefighter to prevent her
civil lawsuit from being thrown out of court.
(Province)
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New sex harassment claims
Female firefighters all off the job
Female firefighters claim harassment
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Mother
jailed for bleach attack on lover
LONDON
- A jealous mother-of-two has been sentenced to three
years in prison for pouring boiling bleach over her
lesbian lover. (Telegraph)
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Suspect charged in sex
attacks
CALGARY - A
community on edge slept a little easier after police
charged a 21-year-old Saturday in connection with two
rapes and a sexual assault in Falconridge. (Calgary
Herald)
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Guard
accused of recruiting young girls
MONTREAL
- Within a week of meeting Alain Jean-Pierre, a former
teenage runaway said she travelled to Toronto with the
metro security guard because he promised her that she
could make big bucks there dancing in strip clubs. (The
Gazette) PREVIOUS:
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lap dancer tells court she lied
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Ex-boyfriend
jailed 1 year
CALGARY
- Cari Benson never imagined her ex-boyfriend would go to
such extremes as stealing her identity and cyberstalking
her. Jonathan
Alan Barnes of has ended up in jail for, among other
things, e-mailing nude photos of the Calgary woman to her
friends and relatives.
(Calgary Herald)
MORE:
Cyberstalker turns victim's life upside down
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Ex-prison
guard allegedly sex assaulted 30 men
VANCOUVER
- A Chilliwack lawyer is representing more than 30 men who
say they were sexually assaulted by a then-prison guard
who was found guilty about five years ago of sexually
abusing five inmates. (Vancouver Sun)
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Police
try to link kidnap suspect to sex assaults
TORONTO
- A man arrested in the attempted abduction of a teenaged
girl in Riverdale last week is being investigated for
links to a string of random sex assaults in the area,
Toronto police said yesterday. (National Post)
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19
'sex slaves' rescued in raid on massage parlour
BIRMINGHAM
- Nineteen foreign women who were allegedly locked away
and forced into sex slavery have been rescued by police
after a raid on a massage parlour. (The Times)
MORE:
Sex
slaves freed as police smash human trafficking ring
Three
in court on brothel charge Police
free sex trade women in massage parlour raid
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Crystal
meth leading to human trafficking
EDMONTON
- Last
month the city police vice unit conducted a hooker sweep,
which yielded some shocking results. Of the 30 women arrested, 24 were aboriginal, a much
higher number than expected.
More
and more young women are shipped to Edmonton and forced to
work the streets in order to pay off drug debts they
incurred back home.
(Edmonton Sun)
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Trevis
Smith guilty
REGINA - Provincial court Judge
Kenn Bellerose, in finding
Trevis Smith
guilty, said Thursday he found the testimonies of the
two women more credible than that of the one-time
Saskatchewan Roughrider. (CP)
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Smith sentenced to 5.5 years
in prison
Former roughrider Smith
guilty
Woman says Smith told her
HIV positive rumours just gossip
The secret life of Trevis
Smith
High time for support for victim
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Extra wives, extra benefits
TORONTO - Ontario's minister of Community and Social
Services said she is "perturbed" to hear about a claim
that husbands with multiple wives are "taking advantage"
of welfare and social benefits in the province. (Ottawa
Citizen)
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England's crisis is ours,
too
UK multiple wives, multiple
benefits
Ontario Family Law Act |
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Court upholds polygamy law
VANCOUVER - Canada's
polygamy law is constitutional but flawed, BC Supreme Court Chief
Justice Robert Bauman ruled. (PostMedia)
2011 BCSC 1588
Polygamy laws upheld
RCMP investigation
BC evidence helped Jeffs conviction
Jeffs found guilty
Dads smuggled daughters into US
RCMP renews Bountiful investigation
Polygamists flaws
Court hears of abuse
Polygamy an issue for immigration
Charges throw out
Polygamy charges dropped
Case in limbo
Beyond Bountiful
It will be expensive
Get use to it
Put your money on polygamy
Third special prosecutor
Oppal orders
special prosecutor
Texas had no right to remove children
Texas acted improperly
FLDS Temple
FLDS secrets
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Life
Guilty
Public can watch videos
Crown wants testimony off the net
Different expert, different view
Polygamy law faces test
Polygamy case opens
Polygamist demands BC cover bills
Conflicting legal views
Polygamy must have its day
in court
Raiding the Polygamists
Charges are 'religious persecution'
Bountiful leaders charged
Leaders charged
Polygamist complaint dismissed
No good deed goes
unpunished
AG appoints lawyer to revisit report
Utah
cases challenge polygamy laws
Judge
walks line
Legalizing polygamy
nightmare
Prosecutor recommends no
charges
Hole in BC School Act
Polygamy warning issued
Homa Arjomand
Sharia
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Canada criticized over polygamy
Legal
question follow raid
YFZ Ranch
Jeffs gets maximum
Jeffs gets two 5-to-life
prison terms
Jury convicts Jeffs
Police officer pledged 'love' to
leader
Polygamist leader wed girls
under 16
Two women found the strength to defy
Polygamist prophet a pimp
Warren Steed Jeffs
End of Warren Jeffs' rule?
Players in polygamous drama
Sect leader captured in Las
Vegas
US may drop charges
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Woman
forced to marry cousin at 14
Police complete Bountiful
investigation
BC
polygamists claim persecution
Women
of Bountiful defend lifestyle
Police
investigate BC commune
Sun Special: Inside
Bountiful
The
Bishop of Bountiful
Hunting
Bountiful
Polygamist
Groups
Plural
wives Legalize
polygamy: study
Cult:
religious practice
Utah
court hears of polygamous judge
The kiss of Jeffs
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Plateau
Rapist jailed for 12 years
MONTREAL
- Roberto Belnavis's tears were as much for himself as for
his victims, a judge noted yesterday in sentencing the
so-called Plateau Rapist to 12 years in prison for his
drug-fuelled sexual assault spree in the summer of 2004.
(Gazette)
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Police asking for the help of the public in apprehending a
suspected rapist
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BC
'sex tourist' given a 10-year sentence
VANCOUVER
- Donald
Bakker, 41, was charged under Canada's so-called
sex-tourism law. He pleaded guilty in a Vancouver
courtroom. (CTV)
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Sex
tourism case begins in Vancouver
Videotapes
of beaten prostitutes lead to arrest
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